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Syriac
npḥ - to blow
(LSyr. 435, SL 929)
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PS
*npḫ
- to blow, breathe, inflate
(SED I No. 45v)
Eventually derived from *pḫ/ḥ ‘to breath, blow, exhale (smell)’ (SED I No. 54v) by prefixation of *n.